Beeks and OmniPhi Target Institutional Agentic AI with Sovereign Infrastructure Partnership
Beeks Financial Cloud Group has partnered with Canadian fintech OmniPhi to develop a sovereign agentic AI platform for capital markets, combining privately hosted large language models with tools for automating trading-related workflows. The agreement includes a strategic investment by Beeks in OmniPhi and will see the companies target banks, brokers, asset managers and professional traders....
Date: 1 December 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes The UK, EU and Swiss markets move to T+1 settlement on 11 October 2027, but the first binding compression arrives almost a year earlier. ESMA’s amended settlement discipline RTS expects allocation and confirmation completed by 23:00 CET on trade…
Now in its 10th year, the RegTech Summit in New York will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the North American capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook. Supervisors increasingly expect firms to demonstrate which rules apply, which data supports each obligation, who owns the control and how exceptions are identified and resolved. Policies and implementation programmes must now be supported by records that can withstand regulatory scrutiny. This edition examines material…
French startup 73 Strings realised a couple of years ago that one of the by-products of its valuation platform was a trove of structured, standardised and consistently labelled data drawn from private markets. This, reasoned Chief Executive and Co-Founder Yann Magnan, was financial gold in a part of the financial sector that has traditionally been...
Bloomberg has introduced BQuant Assistant, a conversational AI coding tool integrated into its BQuant analytics platform, enabling financial professionals to use natural-language instructions to develop investment strategies, query financial datasets and build analytical applications without requiring extensive programming expertise. Available through BQuant Desktop and BQuant Enterprise, the assistant operates within the platform’s existing Python development...
FundApps and SteelEye have launched RegSensus, a new entity combining regulatory monitoring and reporting with trade and communications surveillance following completion of their merger in September. The business targets two sources of duplicated compliance work: firms rebuilding datasets for separate obligations and interpreting the same regulations independently. Announced on 27 October, the merger aims to...
Beeks Financial Cloud Group has partnered with Canadian fintech OmniPhi to develop a sovereign agentic AI platform for capital markets, combining privately hosted large language models with tools for automating trading-related workflows. The agreement includes a strategic investment by Beeks in OmniPhi and will see the companies target banks, brokers, asset managers and professional traders....
Hedge fund performance is increasingly won or lost on the quality of the data driving the model, rather than on the sophistication of the model itself. Data fragmentation, wherein the same underlying economic reality is represented inconsistently across providers, systems and time, goes beyond an administrative nuisance to become a direct drag on business performance....
Financial markets are at an inflection point in their relationship with artificial intelligence. The question is no longer whether to invest, it is how quickly institutions can move from experimentation to operational deployment, and what separates the firms that are scaling from those still stuck in extended pilot phases. The gap is wider than most...
Equities markets are becoming more fragmented, interconnected and continuously available. Liquidity is spreading across venues and geographies, trading hours are extending, and firms are processing more market data and supporting increasingly complex execution workflows. These changes are placing new demands on trading infrastructure. Many traditional platforms continue to deliver excellent latency and throughput, but were...
Eventus has partnered with Synova Global to integrate its Validus trade surveillance platform into the latter’s exchange-as-a-service infrastructure, initially supporting NativX, a marketplace for trading compute capacity. The agreement will provide real-time monitoring and surveillance capabilities designed to detect potential market manipulation and support market integrity across exchanges launched using Synova Global’s technology. NativX, Synova’s…
Broadridge has integrated Kalshi event contracts into its CQG trading platform, enabling retail and institutional investors to access prediction markets alongside futures, options and equities through existing trading interfaces and APIs. The integration provides direct trading access and market data through CQG, incorporating event contracts into its execution, risk management and portfolio monitoring capabilities. Brokers…
B2BROKER has expanded the AI capabilities of its B2TRADER trading platform, introducing Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectivity and an integrated AI Chat interface to support account analysis and automated trading. The MCP integration allows traders to connect external AI agents, including Claude, ChatGPT and custom applications, to retrieve market data, review portfolios and issue natural-language…
Bloomberg has launched a domain-grounded conversational artificial intelligence coding assistant, BQuant Assistant, that is integrated into BQuant Desktop and BQuant Enterprise. The tool enables users to write code, construct applications and accelerate data analysis using natural-language prompts. The assistant operates directly within the Python environment to generate code, answer questions, query datasets and run scripts…
Symbol Master, which provides standardised options symbology and reference data for the financial services industry, said its API solution has been approved for full production utilisation. The API Dashboard provides a single interface that gives clients access to 35 data API endpoints to retrieve data, query historical ranges and check data availability. Access can be…
Tokenisation infrastructure-as-a-service pioneer tZERO Group is listing as a public company via a merger with FG Imperii Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company. The transaction values tZERO at a pre-money equity valuation of $350 million. The combined entity plans to list on the NYSE American exchange under the ticker “TZRO”. Existing shareholders will roll…
S&P Global Ratings has partnered with blockchain oracle Chainlink to make S&P Global Vault Risk Assessment data available on chain. The integration gives institutions and investors direct access to independent vault risk analysis, enabling market participants to evaluate lending vault risks and make more informed decisions about where to deploy capital on chain. The integration…
Trading Technologies now supports trading on Bitstamp by Robinhood’s digital asset markets. Institutional market participants can access Bitstamp by Robinhood’s crypto spot and derivatives markets alongside other asset classes, including futures, fixed income and foreign exchange within TT’s multi-asset environment. TT becomes the first major traditional-markets order/execution management system (O/EMS) to connect directly to Bitstamp by Robinhood,…
Maryland based StarCompliance has added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to its Analytics product, allowing compliance teams to question connected employee and firm data in natural language. The agent returns responses as text, charts or tables. It is intended to reduce the manual work involved in producing compliance analysis and management information. Users can create…
Covalent Equity Partners has made an undisclosed growth investment in AML Analytics to fund new testing engines and international expansion. AML Analytics provides independent testing, validation and risk analytics for anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing and sanctions controls. The transaction’s value and Covalent’s ownership interest were not disclosed. Founded in 2010, AML Analytics uses reference…
San Francisco based Hummingbird has acquired anti-money laundering (AML) risk-detection company Quantimon to connect transaction-monitoring models with the outcomes of alert investigations. The acquisition adds Quantimon’s machine-learning technology and federated learning network to Hummingbird’s financial-crime compliance platform. Financial terms were not disclosed. The planned workflow feeds completed alert decisions back into detection. Hummingbird records whether…
FactSet and Hamilton Lane have announced a strategic partnership to integrate Hamilton Lane’s proprietary private markets data and benchmarks into FactSet’s portfolio analytics platform, enabling institutional investors to analyse public and private assets within a unified workflow. The integration will provide access to data covering more than 70,000 funds and 240,000 assets, alongside fund- and…
Nasdaq Europe plans to launch a new trajectory trading service in November 2026, using PureStream technology to help institutional investors execute large European equity orders while reducing market impact and information leakage. The service will match trading interest based on a specified percentage of future market volume, allowing orders to execute progressively at volume-weighted average…
Plus500 has launched Kalshi perpetual futures through its US Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), becoming the first FCM outside Kalshi Prime to offer the contracts to its customers. The launch extends Plus500’s existing partnership with Kalshi, which already covers prediction markets, and provides access to perpetual futures across its B2B and B2B2C distribution channels. Perpetual futures…
Baton Systems has introduced an advanced portfolio optimisation capability designed to help collateral managers, treasury teams and clearing operations allocate cash and securities more efficiently across multiple clearing venues and margin obligations. The solution evaluates collateral inventories and obligations simultaneously, rather than optimising individual margin requirements sequentially, with the aim of reducing funding costs, preserving…
Xceptor has appointed Keith Redmond as Chief Technology Officer, strengthening its technology leadership as the capital markets data automation provider expands its AI capabilities and modernises its platform architecture. Redmond succeeds Xceptor founder Dan Reid, who will remain involved in the business as a strategic adviser and Non-Executive Director on the company’s board. With more…
Quorum 15, the independent financial markets industry forum, has appointed James Baugh, Managing Director and Head of European Market Structure at TD Securities, as a Non-Executive Director. Baugh brings nearly 30 years of experience across investment banking, exchanges and market infrastructure. He joined TD Execution Services, formerly TD Cowen, in 2021, contributing to the development…
Data engineering and assurance company QualityAI has appointed Kenny Small as Managing Director for the UK to oversee regional operations. Small, who has worked at QualityAI for 13 years, previously served as Global Leader and Senior Vice President of the Enterprise practice. He will report to Chief Executive Andrew Duncan and is based in the…
SOLVE, the fixed-income market data and predictive pricing provider, has appointed Joe Plastina as co-CEO alongside co-founder Gerard Nealon, with fellow co-founder Eugene Grinberg transitioning to chairman. Plastina, previously SOLVE’s chief financial officer and chief operating officer, brings more than 25 years of experience in finance, corporate development and operations at enterprise technology companies. His…
Nasdaq has appointed Andrew Murray as Senior Vice President, Financial Technology, Asia-Pacific, strengthening its regional leadership as it expands its technology partnerships with financial institutions and market infrastructure providers. Based in Singapore, Murray will oversee client relationships and business development across the region, supporting banks, exchanges and other financial institutions pursuing technology modernisation and operational…
Non-profit advocacy organisation Ethereum Institutional has appointed David Duong as Head of US, based in New York City. Duong brings 20+ years in institutional markets research, most recently as Global Head of Investment Research at Coinbase where he led crypto research for the exchange’s institutional clients, covering economic insights, valuation models and market structure. Before…
Infront has appointed Jeff Caldwell as Head of Content, effective 1 October, with responsibility for the financial data provider’s content strategy, data quality, governance and delivery processes. Caldwell joins from Deutsche Börse Group, where he served as Product Manager, Market Data, overseeing analytical infrastructure supporting pricing, reporting and decision-making. Previously, he spent almost four years…
MKI Global Partners has established a new emerging markets advisory practice, initially focusing on Latin America, and appointed Alex Alencar as Managing Director to lead the expansion. The new practice will support MKI’s existing clients pursuing investment and business opportunities in emerging markets, while advising regional investors and companies navigating complex situations in international markets….
Smarsh has appointed Alessandro Silva as Chief Growth Officer, a newly created role bringing its Enterprise, Corporate, Public Sector and Global Channel business units under one commercial strategy. The former ACI Worldwide executive will lead the company’s commercial approach as it expands across international markets. Smarsh says the structure will speed decision-making and improve consistency…
Shield has appointed Michelle Clark as Global Communications Surveillance Expert, bringing experience from HSBC into its product strategy for communications surveillance and risk governance. Clark will help shape the company’s AI development and support customers’ adoption of its technology. Clark brings more than 20 years of global banking experience, including as Global Head of Communications…
Clearstream has appointed Philippe Mueller as Head of Digital Products and Transformation for Clearstream Fund Services, effective immediately, as the Deutsche Börse Group business continues developing its digital fund infrastructure. Mueller will oversee the development and adoption of digital fund solutions, focusing on distributed ledger technology (DLT), fund distribution, transfer agency innovation and private markets…
Caplin Systems has appointed Steve Charlesworth as Chief Technology Officer, taking responsibility for the company’s technology strategy as it expands its institutional trading solutions into new asset classes and markets. Charlesworth brings nearly 20 years of experience in electronic FX trading technology, having held positions at UBS, BBVA, Morgan Stanley and Crédit Agricole CIB, alongside…
Post-trade settlement specialist Tokenovate has hired William L’Heveder as its Chief Revenue Officer. He brings more than a decade of experience across capital markets, strategy and commercial leadership, with over seven years at BMLL, a provider of historical market data and analytics. He also worked as Boston Consulting Group and as a derivatives trader. His…
Hester Peirce has left her Commissioner role at the US Securities & Exchange Commission after an eight-year tenure. During her time at the regulator she consistently advocated for rules and positions that encouraged the advancement of crypto and digital assets. Peirce also oversaw the SEC’s Crypto Task Force since January 2025, during which time the…
Broadridge Financial Solutions announced the appointment of Theo Golden, CFA, as Head of Tokenised Product, International, a newly created role. Golden will lead tokenised product development across Broadridge’s international markets, helping global clients adopt compliant, interoperable digital asset solutions at scale. Based in London, Golden will focus on designing, building and bringing to market tokenised…
Building on our expansion into the alternative data market, A-Team Group is proud to be launching a new awards program. These awards will recognize and celebrate the industry’s most innovative providers and services, spotlighting excellence in this rapidly evolving space.
We are thrilled to unveil the winners of the Data Management Insight Awards USA 2026. These awards celebrate the leading vendor solutions and companies that deliver high-value, innovative data management capabilities to financial institutions in capital markets across North America.
It is our privilege to celebrate the outstanding achievements of this year’s winners at the 2nd annual AI in Capital Markets Awards. These awards have been designed to recognise exceptional AI applications advancing innovation in capital markets.
